Publications

The Public and Private in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age

Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. and Adele Seeff, eds. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 2000. 265 pages, index.

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This volume focuses on how the balance between public and private identity was manifested and maintained in the social and cultural worlds of Dutch society during its most lustrous period, the seventeenth century. It also examines the state's and the Church's roles in the lives of Dutch citizenry. Historians and art historians discuss the tensions implicit in these relationships.

Contents:

• R.E. Kistemaker, "The Public and the Private: Public Space in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam"
  
• Eco Haitsma Mulier, "Descriptions of Towns in the Seventeenth-Century Province of Holland"
  
• Henk van Nierop, "Private Interests, Public Policies: Petitions in the Dutch Republic"
  
• H. Perry Chapman, "Propagandist Prints, Reaffirming Paintings: Art and Community during the Twelve Years' Truce"
  
• Herman Roodenburg, "On 'Swelling' the Hips and Crossing the Legs: Distinguishing Public and Private in Paintings and Prints from the Dutch Golden Age"
  
• Paul Knevel, "Armed Citizens: The Representation of the Civic Militias in the Seventeenth Century"
  
• Alison McNeil Kettering, "Gerard ter Borch's Military Men: Masculinity Transformed"
  
• Ilja M. Veldman, "Representations of Labor and Diligence in Late Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Art: The Secularization of the Work Ethic"
  
• Nanette Salomon, "Early Netherlandish Bordeeltjes and the Construction of Social 'Realities'"
  
• Mieke B. Smits-Veldt, "Images of Private Life in Some Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch Ego-Documents"
  
• Judith Pollmann, "Public Enemies, Private Friends: Arnoldus Buchelius's Experience of Religious Diversity in the Early Dutch Republic"
  
• Carol Janson, "Public Places, Private Lives: The Impact of the Dutch Revolt on the Reformed Churches in Holland"
  
• Michiel Jonker, "Public or Private Portraits: Group Portraits of Amsterdam Regents and Regentesses"
  
• Linda Stone-Ferrier, "Metsu's Justice Protecting Widows and Orphans: Patron and Painter Relationships and Their Involvement in the Social and Economic Plight of Widows and Orphans in Leiden"